The poetical works of lord Byron, with notes, Volume 3Suttaby, 1885 |
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... Song of Saul All is Vanity , saith the Preacher When Coldness wraps this Suffering Clay Vision of Belshazzar Sun of the Sleepless Were my Bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be Herod's Lament for Mariamne . .112 113 114 115 116 117 119 ...
... Song of Saul All is Vanity , saith the Preacher When Coldness wraps this Suffering Clay Vision of Belshazzar Sun of the Sleepless Were my Bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be Herod's Lament for Mariamne . .112 113 114 115 116 117 119 ...
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... song . Let judgment teach him wisely to combine With future parts the now omitted line : This shall the author choose , or that reject , Precise in style , and cautious to select ; Nor slight applause will candid pens afford To him who ...
... song . Let judgment teach him wisely to combine With future parts the now omitted line : This shall the author choose , or that reject , Precise in style , and cautious to select ; Nor slight applause will candid pens afford To him who ...
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... song . The slow , sad stanza will correctly paint The lover's anguish , or the friend's complaint . But which deserves the laurel - rhyme or blank ? Which holds on Helicon the higher rank ? Let squabbling critics by themselves dispute ...
... song . The slow , sad stanza will correctly paint The lover's anguish , or the friend's complaint . But which deserves the laurel - rhyme or blank ? Which holds on Helicon the higher rank ? Let squabbling critics by themselves dispute ...
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... song hero rants in modern plays ; Whilst modest Comedy her verse foregoes For jest and pun 11 in very middling prose . Not that our Bens or Beaumonts show the worse , Or lose one point , because they wrote in verse . But so Thalia ...
... song hero rants in modern plays ; Whilst modest Comedy her verse foregoes For jest and pun 11 in very middling prose . Not that our Bens or Beaumonts show the worse , Or lose one point , because they wrote in verse . But so Thalia ...
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... , " Of man's first disobedience and the fruit " He speaks , but , as his subject swells along , Earth , Heaven , and Hades echo with the song . " 7 VOL . III . B Still to the midst of things he hastens on , HINTS FROM HORACE . 17.
... , " Of man's first disobedience and the fruit " He speaks , but , as his subject swells along , Earth , Heaven , and Hades echo with the song . " 7 VOL . III . B Still to the midst of things he hastens on , HINTS FROM HORACE . 17.
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Page 158 - twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scatter'd at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs ; the hill Was crown'd with a peculiar diadem Of trees, in circular array, so fix'd, Not by the sport of nature, but of man...
Page 127 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 149 - The envious who but breathe in others' pain, Behold the host ! delighting to deprave, Who track the steps of Glory to the grave, Watch every fault that daring Genius owes Half to the ardour which its birth bestows, Distort the truth— accumulate the lie And pile the Pyramid of Calumny ! ' These are his portion — but if...
Page 127 - Where thy head so oft hath lain, While that placid sleep came o'er thee Which thou ne'er canst know again; Would that breast by thee glanced over, Every inmost thought could show!
Page 57 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course, and own the hues of heaven ; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Page 119 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 99 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
Page 129 - Though his care she must forego ? When her little hands shall press thee, When her lip to thine is...
Page 103 - IF THAT HIGH WORLD. IP that high world, which lies beyond Our own, surviving Love endears ; If there the cherish'd heart be fond, The eye the same, except in tears — How welcome those untrodden spheres ! How sweet this very hour to die ! To soar from earth, and find all fears Lost in thy light — Eternity...
Page 160 - She was serene and smiling then, and yet She knew she was by him beloved, — she knew, For quickly comes such knowledge, that his heart Was darken'd with her shadow, and she saw That he was wretched, but she saw not all. He rose, and with a cold and gentle grasp He took her hand ; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced...